AT&T recently announced a milestone of a record 284,000 net U-Verse TV subscribers in the first quarter of 2009. This drives the total number of subscribers to more than 1.3 million. When coupled with the number of people who have subscribed to AT&T Advanced TV services, the total number of customers exceeds more than 3.5 [...]

Video on Demand (VOD) services, typically offered by cable and telecom carriers, allow customers to play movies, TV shows, or any kind of video when they want to see it. Many cable networks, both basic and premium, offer VOD channels which allow customers to play shows or movies that have already been broadcast on their [...]

Verizon’s FiOS TV service is growing increasingly popular as it becomes available in more areas. More people are coming to discover that the picture quality and speed towers over both cable and satellite by far. While the service has proven to be a viable alternative to traditional TV mediums, there are still a few consumers [...]

TiVO was one of the first Digital Video Recording (DVR) devices sold to consumers, and helped to establish the DVR industry. The functionality offered in most cable and satellite company DVRs was first introduced in the TiVO, and the cable companies emulate it in an attempt to compete with TiVO. Everyone who has a DVR [...]

NFL Sunday Ticket is an exclusive sports package only offered via DirecTV. This package was designed to allow customers to see NFL games from outside of their region every Sunday. The subscriber gains access to over 200 games over the course of the season, and up to 14 games every weekend. Sunday Ticket also provides [...]

Verizon’s FiOS service is slowly spreading throughout their American markets, and as the user community grows, people switching from various cable and satellite companies are finding the transition more difficult than they anticipated. Recording shows to DVD has sparked a lot of discussion in various web forums, because it has posed a challenge to FiOS [...]

FiOS TV has been sweeping the nation, offering a superb quality that sees more and more customers trading in their cable boxes and satellite dishes for the speed of Verizon’s fiber-optic technology. While Verizon is frequently adding to its channel lineup, sports fanatics, baseball fans in particular, have been deprived of the 24-hour access needed [...]

Verizon added much functionality to its popular television service with a free interactive feature known as FiOS Widgets. Introduced in 2006, FiOS Widgets represented the first of numerous product enhancements that allow subscribers to not only control, but share entertainment and data throughout their homes. This feature offers easy, one-touch on-demand access to traffic and [...]

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There’s so many webcam manufacturers it may seem impossible to find the right one. Most are plagued with buggy firmware or poor optics. After two years of continuous use, I happy to report that two StarDot NetCam MPs have performed flawlessly as Sarasota’s premier webcams. Here’s the view from Downtown Sarasota:

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